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I gave some good money to Bernie then when I was 17 didn't know better.
I see what you say but I want to argue it's not worth much of our individual activism time/energy.
Voting is somewhat useless if it's not organized strategically in a group which is what I suggest.
And our 'democracy' is very secure from what it means to actually be democratic. The maximum payout from voting as a form of activism is small because of this. That is why it not worthy of a large consideration.
Yes, if you're actually organizing so much that spending an hour filling out a ballot based on some local union's voter guide is gonna detract from that then you have a point. Also if you live in a state where voter suppression is much stronger, sure.
But I feel like that's not a very common situation. I think when you factor in the impact that local elections have—Republicans are very successfully banning books about critical race theory currently by electing school board officials; sheriffs have an incredible amount of power with very little oversight and very few people vote on those races; local government officials can just sell your green space to bougie developers to further gentrification—if you factor in all that, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an activist too busy to copy a voter guide.